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Käthe Kollwitz was confronted with death early in her life. Thus, three of her siblings died. Her whole life she had a conversation with death, her sister once wrote. At the age of 20, Kollwitz arrived in Munich before the turn of the century. Kollwitz had grown up in Königsberg and studied at a drawing school for girls in Berlin. She came to Munich at the request of her father. He was concerned about her artistic career, as she had become engaged to Karl Kollwitz, a medical student. She liked the tranquil Munich. Her fellow students, however, mocked Käthe. For an art student who was at the same time engaged in a middle-class way was not looked upon favorably. In addition to the judgmental looks of the others, Kollwitz also had difficulties in artistic terms. In her opinion, the others were much more talented in painting. Then, when she discovered a brochure about painting and drawing, she realized that she was not really a painter. Now her true talent could unfold. Through drawing, Kollwitz was able to emphasize the essential in people like hardly anyone else. Thus she was able to develop stylus art, the work with charcoal, pen and pencil, to the highest level of mastery. She was able, through the interpretation of her time, to discover a reality that remains hidden from most artists.
Kollwitz often accompanied her husband to his patients and learned about the hardship in the poor quarters of Berlin. In a sense, she felt beauty in the suffering and gloom of proletarian life. From her encounters with the workers, Kollwitz felt a sense of obligation to serve the workers with her art. Even though many contemporaries did not recognize a sense of purpose in art, her highest ideal was to make an impact with her art.
Kollwitz, however, never wanted to be seen merely as a performer of the proletariat. She recognized early that people have to suffer not only from their class-related circumstances, but also from the inescapable laws of life, under separation and death. The year 1914 and the associated outbreak of the First World War once again underpinned her view of the suffering of life. Käthe Kollwitz had two sons when the war broke out, Hans and Peter. Peter was 18 years old when the war broke out and he volunteered for the front. Only 18 days after Käthe Kollwitz took her son to the train station, he was killed in action. Käthe Kollwitz could not get over the death of her son.
Käthe Kollwitz was confronted with death early in her life. Thus, three of her siblings died. Her whole life she had a conversation with death, her sister once wrote. At the age of 20, Kollwitz arrived in Munich before the turn of the century. Kollwitz had grown up in Königsberg and studied at a drawing school for girls in Berlin. She came to Munich at the request of her father. He was concerned about her artistic career, as she had become engaged to Karl Kollwitz, a medical student. She liked the tranquil Munich. Her fellow students, however, mocked Käthe. For an art student who was at the same time engaged in a middle-class way was not looked upon favorably. In addition to the judgmental looks of the others, Kollwitz also had difficulties in artistic terms. In her opinion, the others were much more talented in painting. Then, when she discovered a brochure about painting and drawing, she realized that she was not really a painter. Now her true talent could unfold. Through drawing, Kollwitz was able to emphasize the essential in people like hardly anyone else. Thus she was able to develop stylus art, the work with charcoal, pen and pencil, to the highest level of mastery. She was able, through the interpretation of her time, to discover a reality that remains hidden from most artists.
Kollwitz often accompanied her husband to his patients and learned about the hardship in the poor quarters of Berlin. In a sense, she felt beauty in the suffering and gloom of proletarian life. From her encounters with the workers, Kollwitz felt a sense of obligation to serve the workers with her art. Even though many contemporaries did not recognize a sense of purpose in art, her highest ideal was to make an impact with her art.
Kollwitz, however, never wanted to be seen merely as a performer of the proletariat. She recognized early that people have to suffer not only from their class-related circumstances, but also from the inescapable laws of life, under separation and death. The year 1914 and the associated outbreak of the First World War once again underpinned her view of the suffering of life. Käthe Kollwitz had two sons when the war broke out, Hans and Peter. Peter was 18 years old when the war broke out and he volunteered for the front. Only 18 days after Käthe Kollwitz took her son to the train station, he was killed in action. Käthe Kollwitz could not get over the death of her son.
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.jpg "Woman with Dead Child, 1903 by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "The Mothers by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Seeds Should Not Be Ground by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Pieta by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait in Profile Facing Left II by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Female Nude Back on Green Cloth by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Down with the Abortion Paragraphs! by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Boy with Arms Around Mother")
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.jpg "Self portrait by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Käthe Kollwitz, Female Half-Nude Back 1901 by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Gretchen by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Commemorative sheet for Karl Liebknecht by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Plowman and Woman by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Female Half-Nude by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Maria and Elisabeth III by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Family by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, The People by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Sleeping Woman with Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Female Nude from the Back by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "The March of the Weavers in Berlin by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "No More War by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Need by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait with Hand on Forehead by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Seated Female Nude from the Back by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Memorial Depicting the Artist and Her Husband Mourning Their Dead Son, Peter Kollwitz, Dedicated in 1931 by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Nude Study for The Life by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "The Widow by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Woman with Scythe by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Bread!, 1924 by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Hans Kollwitz with Candle by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Woman with Dead Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait with Right Arm Resting, Hand on Forehead by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Woman with Dead Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Tower of Mothers by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Poster Against Paragraph 218 by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "The Parents by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Despairing Woman with Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Death Seizes a Woman by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "A Weaver")
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.jpg "Kathe Kollwitz, Self-portrait 1904 by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Germany")
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.jpg "The Parents by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Pieta by Käthe Kollwitz")
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_1897_-_(MeisterDrucke-319443).jpg "Revolt (By the Gates of a Park) by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Seated Female Nude by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Poster for Antiwar Day by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "A Weaver")
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.jpg "Bread by Käthe Kollwitz")
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_Three_Studies_of_a_Child_(verso)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1306208).jpg "Pregnant Woman Contemplating Suicide (recto) Three Studies of a Child (verso) by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Mother with Child in Arms by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Seed Fruits Should Not Be Ground by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Woman with Dead Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait en face with Right Hand by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Woman with Dead Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Death and Woman by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, The Sacrifice by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, The Mothers by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "The Downtrodden by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Germany’s Children are Starving by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Seated Female Nude from the Back Facing Right by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "The End, from the Series")
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.jpg "Death, Woman, and Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Mother and Child by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Weavers")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Kneeling Man before Female Nude by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Woman with Orange by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Praying Girl by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Youthful Self-Portrait with Loose Hair by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Raped by Käthe Kollwitz")
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_for_the_ope_-_(MeisterDrucke-1079607).jpg "Demonstration of workers, illustration of Kathe Kollowitz for the opera Die Weber (The Weavers) by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Begging by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Lovers by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Laughing Woman by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Never Again War by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Outbreak, Plate 5 from the Series")
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.jpg "Pieta by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "K. Kollwitz, Battlefield by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "After the Battle (from the series")
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.jpg "Parisian Cellar Bar by Käthe Kollwitz")
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.jpg "Child Death by Käthe Kollwitz")
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